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Of course it is fun to follow your friend on Twitter and find out where she is drinking coffee at that very moment. And yes it is also fun to read that she has been standing in line for more than 3 hours to buy one of the H&M Comme des Garçon collectors items. But would it be dramatic if you didn’t know? Not really, right? Let alone world changing.
There are, however, Twitter conversation that do matter, that really want to change something for a better world. Rhesa, for example, from San Francisco, explores ways of creating new channels of capital to fund innovation and creativity in undeserved communities. You can follow how her updates @persistance
Female Hero of the Week: Gina Bianchini
Female Hero of the Week: Gina Bianchini
Our female internet Hero of the week is Gina Bianchini, co-founder and CEO of social networking platform Ning and a true innovator on the web scene. Gina was among the 20 most influential women in web 2.0 named by Fastcompany this week, with other women including Leah Culver, founder of Pownce, Rashmi Sinha, CEO and co-founder of Slideshare, Dina Kaplin, founder of blip.tv, Marissa Mayer, Google’s first female engineer and many more. Feel there is one that should top them all? On thenextweb you can vote for one.
Thenextwomen’s vote goes to Gina, why? Read more
Sourcing Angie Byron
Angie Byron
It’s not often you meet someone like Angie Byron.
In meeting her you are reminded that the success of any business model rests squarely on the strength of its underlying relationships. Mostly though, you are reminded of the gift some people have in sparking the good out of people. The kind of good which harnesses diversity and reins it seemingly effortlessly into a direction of cooperative and mutual benefit. Building. Building of people. Building of relationships. That is Angie Byron. Naturally.
Female Heroes Interview: Gisel Hiscock
Every week we publish an interview with one of our female internet heroes. MEET interesting women, READ about their WORK, THINK about how they PLAY the internet industry and see how you MATCH them. Be inspired!Thenextwomen is very pleased to share with you this week’s interview with Gisel Hiscock.
Gisel Hiscock
When you google Gisel Hiscock, you get 25,800 hits. From those you find out that for a 34 year old, she has an impressive record in business, having worked for google for five years as its Finance Director, Global Compliance, and previously for companies such as Sony Pictures, start-up Brandfever.com, and financial consultancy Mitchell Madison Group. This year, the year that she has lived 17 years in Europe and 17 years in the US, she became Google’s Director of New Business Development for Europe, Middle East & Africa.
She told thenextwomen about that work, where her interest and experience with those countries lies and what the future holds for her.
- Can you tell me a little about yourself?
Female Heroes Interview: Eileen Gittins
Every week we publish an interview with one of our female internet heroes. MEET interesting women, READ about their WORK, THINK about how they PLAY the internet industry and see how you MATCH them. Be inspired! This week: Eileen Gittins.
Eileen Gittins
Eileen is a serial entrepreneur of the truest kind. She has set up a number of web companies, including Personify, an ecommerce data mining and analytics company and Verb, a context-based search engine company. Her current company Blurb was founded from Eileen’s passion for photography and from the realization that the idea for Blurb was “the idea that doesn’t leave you, that comes back to you while you are under the shower.” The result is a web company that allows anyone to print a book, whether they need ten or a hundred copies. More importantly however, it is a company to which many can relate; artists, families, photography hobbyists, and even Eileen’s mom. Eileen: “My mother used to say: ‘Eileen is in the internet.’ Now she says ‘Eileen runs a company where anyone can make a book.’ There is something very nice about doing something so concrete, something people get.”
Thenextwomen talked to Eileen about why founding a company from a passion is so fulfilling, her success, her mistakes and what she learned from them.
· How did you come to set up Blurb?
What has she Beeny up to? launch of completingchains.com
Sarah Beeny
Sarah Beeny, known for her no-nonsense advice to would-be developers in TV show Property Ladder, has recently launched completingchains.com – a new website to keep the property market moving during the credit crunch.
Beeny’s concept works with people on the property market, registering all their property details, in addition to all the information about the property they want to buy or sell. It then matches all these people and creates chains. Registered agents then work with sellers across the chain, to release enough equity to adjust the price, so that it is accessible to first-time buyers and to get everything going. Read more
Gwyneth Paltrow: new Female internet hero
female internet hero: gwyneth paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow is the most recent celebrity Female Internet Hero. With the lifestyle website GOOP she is in the process of setting up an online newsletter with a collection of experiences how to Make, Go, Get, Do, Be and See. ‘Nurture the inner aspect, and do something real’, says Paltrow.
Female Hero of the week: Arianna Huffington
Female Hero Arianna Huffington
Our Female Hero of the Week is Arianna Huffington, blogger, opinionmaker, socialite and speaker at this week’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York.
Ms Huffington can be credited with single-handedly moving the image of the blogger away from the somewhat geeky man blogging from his living room, to the influential opinion maker, be it male or female, with a glamourous edge. Read more
Female Heroes Interview: Lisa Sounio
Every week we publish an interview with one of our female internet heroes. MEET interesting women, READ about their WORK, THINK about how they PLAY the internet industry and see how you MATCH them. Be inspired! This week: Lisa Sounio.
Lisa Sounio (photo*) is a Finnish internet entrepreneur, an investor, and a great advocate of simplicity in web applications. She is also a co-founder of social network Dopplr, a service that is as simple as it is useful. Dopplr lets users share their future travel plans privately with friends and colleagues, answering their question ‘where next?’ Thenextwomen asked here the same, where next?
Female Heroes Interview: Estelle Akofio-Sowah
Every week we will be publishing an interview with one of our female internet heroes in order for you to MEET interesting women. READ about their WORK, THINK about how they PLAY the internet industry and see how you MATCH them. Be inspired! thenextwomen is proud to feature African Internet Hero Estelle Akofio-Sowah this week.
‘I live in a world where you cannot take anything for granted. What is technology when your toilets are not flushing and you have customers needing running water. What is technology then?’ says Estelle Akofio-Sowah, Managing Director of business centre Busy in Ghana.
Established in 2001, BusyInternet is the largest privately-owned and operated ICT centre in Africa. Through Busy, Estelle tries to encourage both business and social development.
BusyInternet has been hailed as a promising model for Africa by combining internet access, business support services, office space, training and business incubation in a single facility.
Estelle gave thenextwomen insight into the internet sector in Ghana and how she is encouraging social development and business growth through it, while reminding us of the luxurious position people are in the Western world, to have the time and infrastructure to use the internet to the fullest. Read more
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